Since the legalization in Germany in April, there has been nothing. No spiking crime rates, no spiking usage numbers, but still conservatives lose their shit Bavarian conservatives especially. You know, those conservatives who drink for tradition, not for fun.

why would states w/ legal weed offer these shitty hemp based substitutes? honest query.

So the cannabis products sold in licensed dispensaries in NJ, for example, would be safe from this legislation?

Yeah but thca flower is basically normal weed and most of the delta 9 thc gummies are good. They didn't have to all-out ban it. They could've made it illegal to sell to anyone under 21. But nope.

Clearly the only way to protect the children is to make it all illegal again and put people in jail for possession. /s

This is going to remove legal access to thc for basically half the us population. Now anyone that really wants it either has to try smuggling it across state lines from dispensaries or growing it. GOOD FUCKING LUCK with that thanks to all the goddamn Flock cameras they put up everywhere just to automatically catch people who go to dispensaries. They're making all hemp/cannabis seeds that can produce thc or thca flower illegal too. Now we can't grow our own anymore either. You know how it's literally fucking impossible to buy coca or opium seeds? You can't even get that shit on the dark net. Well cannabis seeds are going to become that impossible to get too. Why would the cartels let anyone have seeds when they can sell weed for $700/oz?

The thc black market that arises from this is going to be full of nasty synthetics that make delta 8, hhc and all that other nasty bullshit look safe by comparison. I will not name which of these non-thc synthetic cannabinoids are easiest to produce but at least some of them won't show up on thc drug tests. All of the options besides making delta 8 from cbd (and cbd comes from hemp plants which will become illegal so its moot point) are significantly more complicated than methamphetamine production so whatever black market thc we do get is going to be really really bad.

Fuck every single christo-fascist. Fuck every single corporation that lobbied for this just so they could have an easier time indiscriminately firing people over thc metabolites without collapsing due to staffing. I wish misfortune on them all.

I agree. We need public executions. Either serve the people or don't serve at all. You serve yourself while in office and we live stream your head falling off

Hemp derived THC was unintentionally made legal in a 2018 farm bill. These products have been available pretty much nationwide since then.

Yes, they are. This is because the THC that's federally illegal is a specific form of THC: ∆9 THC.

But there are several different forms of THC along with other psychoactive cannabinoids (∆8, THCp, CBG, HHC, CBC, CBN) that were made legal with the 2018 farm bill that legalized hemp derived products. States have been restricting them, but not the feds until now.

I would assume ti would be only for the states that are not legalized e.g. majority of the south.

Yes, depending on your state you can walk into pretty much any "grass station" (a non major chain) and see an array of products, delta 9 is not usually allowed in these states or requires a medical card but there're close to 300 cannabinoids IIRC while some may be more/less effective, or have no effect at all these products really shouldn't be sold ATM, there is very little regulation or testing and it's really up to the consumer to decide if they can trust the brand/lab results, then you have shady stores repacking/refilling, counterfeiting, and selling underage. Now we could pass some common sense legislation and have everything regulated by the FDA/ABC or whatever.